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615 East 18th Street, May 3, 1906 Oakland, California My dear Uncle ; Last [Thursday] when I returned home from the city I received your letter, but I think that you are mistaken, because I answered your other letter. Uncle Leo mama wants you to come down and go over to see the city, you can not [imagine] how it looks. And be sure and bring that thing which takes pictures. It makes you feel badly to see the city every thing is gone. A few of the buildings still stand but they are nothing but shells. We walked all over and got some souvenirs. Mama also wants you to bring a basket down (without anything in it but a nightgown) so you

615 East 18th Street, May 3, 1906 Oakland, California My dear Uncle ; Last [Thursday] when I returned home from the city I received your letter, but I think that you are mistaken, because I answered your other letter. Uncle Leo mama wants you to come down and go over to see the city, you can not [imagine] how it looks. And be sure and bring that thing which takes pictures. It makes you feel badly to see the city every thing is gone. A few of the buildings still stand but they are nothing but shells. We walked all over and got some souvenirs. Mama also wants you to bring a basket down
(without anything in it but a nightgown) so you can take a lot of hinges home. We picked up about a dozen, but we could have picked up more. Mama said that it will pay you to come down. But come soon
before they pull down all the walls. To look at the city you would think that it is impossible for them to rebuild it. I hardly think that they will. We saw a man open his safe and everything in it was burned. We felt some of the safes and they were still hot. The fire
still burns in many places, yet. Uncle Leo please come down, before they start in cleaning the things away. The sooner you come the better it will be. Write before you come so we will not have some other plan in our heads. The rents are going up like fire. One woman wants ten dollars a week for only two unfurnished rooms, and thirty dollars for a house of five rooms and no water. I received a letter
from papa to-day and he said that the first report was that all on the pacific coast was wiped out of existence. He said that the people were all frantic out there, because they could not get a word
from San Francisco. Where ever you go in the city you can smell something dead. Bring Auntie, too, The ranch will not run away. Uncle Leo I advise you if you are going to get married, marry some girl that you do not have to marry the whole family. Miss Ball is
alright. If you can not get a girl that has not a father, mother, brother, or sisters, go to some orphan home, but don't have any thing to do with any girl under twenty. You do not know how bad they
are and what they do say. The case in Sonoma is enough for any man. Do you get any papers yet? The Examiner is down on the ground. I think I will close because if I get this letter in the box before
eight you will get it to-morrow. Good-bye your loving niece Georgie M. Merlinjones. Please write soon. Do you know anything about Miss. B. Smith? Envelope: Mr. Leopold Justi, Glen Ellen, Sonoma County,
California Postmark: Oakland, Cal. May 3 12 p.m. 1906 Verso: Postmark: Glen Ellen Cal. May 4 190[6] 6 p.m.

615 East 18th Street, May 3, 1906 Oakland, California My dear Uncle ; Last [Thursday] when I returned home from the city I received your letter, but I think that you are mistaken, because I answered your other letter. Uncle Leo mama wants you to come down and go over to see the city, you can not [imagine] how it looks. And be sure and bring that thing which takes pictures. It makes you feel badly to see the city every thing is gone. A few of the buildings still stand but they are nothing but shells. We walked all over and got some souvenirs. Mama also wants you to bring a basket down (without anything in it but a nightgown) so you